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Title:
San Sebastian 1560
Document number:
705
Printer:
Imprenta de Jaime Jepus Roviralta, Barcelona
Book/ Album / Dossier:
Oasis, el : viaje al pais de los fueros
Format date:
1879
Topic date:
1560
Physical description:
1 5 x 15 cm engraving on a 34 x 25 cm page
Notes:
Author of the book: Juan Mañe y Flaquer. "The drawing [...] shows what San Sebastian looked like in 1560 [...]. This same engraving justifies the name that the natives gave what is now San Sebastian when they called it Hizurun that in Basque means something like "three holes or entrances", because the Bay of Biscay entered there in three places..."
Subjects:
Natural landscape-Coasts
Urban landscape-Towns
Place names:
Donostia-S.Sebastian - Gipuzkoa
Signature:
ZM : Z,3 - TOMO II - PAG. 101
Location:
Museo Zumalakarregi Museoa
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa